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Controversial opinions on almost everything conceivable in the eighteenth century
VRYAART, Reinier (= LUZAC, Elie).Openhartige brieven, om te dienen tot opheldering en regte kennis van de vaderlandsche historie; en teffens ter aanwyzinge van de waare en wezendlyke oorzaaken van 's lands vervallen en kwynenden staat, mitsgaders van de middelen om tot beteren toestand te komen.    On title of part 1: Tweede druk. Van drukfeilen gezuiverd, en met eenige aantekeningen vermeerderd. Deventer, L.A. Karsenberg e.a. [= Leyden, Luzac & Van Damme], (1781-84). 12 parts in 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary boards with printed title labels on spines. 188, 202, 188 12; 200, 204, 192, 16; 192, 186, 198, 14; 304, 188, 362, 24 pp. Original edition of this polemic work by the lawyer, historian, philosopher and printer Elie Luzac (Noordwijk 1721- Leiden 1796), published under his pseudonym Reinier Vryaart. 'Luzac was a member of the international community of enlightened Huguenots. He was a very prolific author. Until his death he addressed almost every conceivable eighteenth century topic. As a conservative he was an Orangist political theorist of the final decades of the Dutch ancien régime as well as an antagonist of the power of aristocracy regents. During the time the patriot movement emerged in the 1780's Luzac attempted to halt the - in his eyes - assault on civilisation by several polemical writings, such as the magazines Openhartige brieven (1781-1784), De vaderlandsche staatsbeschouwers (1784-1788), and Vaderlandsche brieven (1784-1788). His ideas about the established order and his rejection of participation by the people in politics can be found in his De voor- en nadeelen van den invloed des volks op de regeering (1788-1789), and Lettres sur les dangers de changer la constitution primitive d'un gouvernement public (1792). Luzac wrote also comments on Montesquieu's De l'esprit desoix (1759).'(Van Vliet). Good set, uncut.
R. Van Vliet, Elie Luzac (1721-1796), p. 617; Idem, Lemma 'Elie Luzac (1721-1796)'. In: Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2 parts, 2003); Van Doorninck I, col. 636; NNBW I, 1287-90.
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